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* https://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/09/care-about-your-heart-lungs-you-should-care-about-carbon-emissions-driving-costs-more-than-gas-prices-show/
<big>'''Asthma and Air Pollution'''</big>


Ground-level ozone is part of “smog” or haze. It is most common in cities where there are more cars and use of fossil fuels. It is also more common in the summer when there is more sunlight, heat, and low winds. Ground-level ozone is created by chemical reactions between emissions of burning fuel emissions and volatile organic compounds (VOC), heat, and sunlight. It is associated with worsening respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Ozone triggers asthma because it is very irritating to the lungs and airways.


Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), Sulfur dioxide (SO2), Carbon monoxide (CO), Methane (CH4)


Other gases can also affect your health and environment.


Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) comes from burning fuels. It also forms from emissions from cars, trucks, other vehicles, and power plants. It is part of smog (haze). Breathing in NO2 can cause someone to develop asthma. It can worsen lung disease, especially asthma.


<big><big>'''A 'SMOG' Life & Death Story'''</big></big>
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) comes from burning fossil fuels, transportation, volcanoes, and industrial processes. It can be found in smog or haze. SO2 can harm plants (including trees). It can harm your lungs and lead to health problems.


Carbon monoxide (CO) forms from incomplete combustion of fuels and wood. It has no smell. It can be very dangerous when it builds up inside buildings, homes, and cars.


<big>Local to State to National to Global -- and Back</big>
Methane (CH4) is another gas that is part of air pollution. It mostly comes from animal agriculture and in subarctic regions where it is released from melting permafrost. Fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) and waste (food, landfills, wastewater) also add methane to the air. Methane is 30 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a major greenhouse gas that is worsening the climate crisis. Methane can turn into ground-level ozone, which is harmful to human health.




SJS/Siterunner: The X-ray that the Congressman showed me was that of a child who had grown up in Los Angeles in the 1950s when the air was at its worst. The X-Ray was 'postmortem', the child had died and now the after death examination was displaying the causes of death.
'''Cancer and Oil/Gas/Carbon Emissions'''


<small><small>* https://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/09/care-about-your-heart-lungs-you-should-care-about-carbon-emissions-driving-costs-more-than-gas-prices-show/</small></small>


Now [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary '''let me go back to the Schwinn and another memory.''']
<small><small>* https://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/03/us-study-of-miners-links-heavy-exposure-to-diesel-exhaust-to-increased-risk-of-lung-cancer-death-res.html</small></small>


''The X-ray George showed me in his office. It left a strong imprint on my consciousness as a kid growing up in the worst years of LA smog. I had asthma as did many kids and the X-ray was of a kid's lungs, after death. The impairment, the darkness, was evident and George carried on that day, the trained engineer that he was, talking about how 'we' needed to clean the air up, to make LA a model, California a model of what could happen if the people protected the kids. I don't remember all the details of his plan, but I remember the X-ray.''




The plan did come into focus in the following years. What George later began to explain was how the air "in the LA basin" was stagnant, the cars from the post-war boom were pumping gases, pollution, into the air and, as the suburbs grew in a way that was unequaled in the world at the time, the air pollution grew as quickly. The cars, those 'muscle cars' with 'Holly 4-barrel carbs' were the most visible 'culprits' but all the cars were pumping gases into the air. The new freeways, highways, roads being built throughout Southern California were the talk of the town and the country, but the consequences were DIRT in LUNGS and the kids and their health were suffering.
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Congressman George Brown decided to fix the problem, to put it in simple terms. And with other leaders in the fight for kids, health, breathing and better air, the Clean Air Act of 1970 and a host of solutions came into existence.




Take a look back at some of George's work at the frontlines of environmental protection...
<big>'''Shocking No One, LA Is Number 1 In Smog Pollution Yet Again'''</big>


In many ways as a green movement was created, our goal became protecting life.
April 2022


* https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/shocking-no-one-la-is-number-1-in-annual-smog-pollution-yet-again


The environmental work of Californians and those who supported the pioneering (life-supporting) air quality/clean air work would go from California regulations to Federal laws and regulations, and on to cities/nations of around the world as the model 'green best practices' were used to jump start other polluted air regions.


The vision of these early 'clean air' next, as George E. Brown explained to GreenPolicy360's siterunner early on, also applied to the air quality "higher up" in the atmosphere. In the early 1970s, scientists were at work, with George and the oversight committee he had become key in 'moving 'n shaking', in the nation's and, as it were, the world's first national/global climate science studies.
<big>'''American Lung Association / State of the Air Report'''</big>


* https://www.lung.org/research/sota


From SMOG pollution to ATMOSPHERIC pollution, the trail is there for historians to see ... the low-atmosphere, the high-atmosphere, the consequences, dangers and threats, from breathing and health to climate change and threats to a thriving, living Earth. 


<big>'''Pollution Report Paints Gloomy Picture of Smoggiest U.S. Cities'''</big>
: ''Los Angeles topped the dirty air list for the 14th time in 15 years''


The SMOG/clean up the air story is now half a century on --- and at [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS '''GreenPolicy360'''] we are attempting to paint the picture of how the story has changed over the years.
ABC News


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April 2014


<big>'''GreenPolicy360: Connecting & sharing world changing stories'''</big>
''More than half of Americans breathe in unhealthy air, according to a new American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2014” report.''


<small>GreenPolicy360 journeys across 50+ years of the modern environmental movement</small>
''The Association found that air pollution throughout the nation has gotten a little worse since last year’s report. In particular, ozone levels rose in the three year period from 2010 to 2012, possibly because of climate change.''


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''“We’re making progress but some of that could be reversed with rising ozone levels,” said Janice Nolen, the Lung Association’s vice president of national policy. “A changing climate is going to make it harder to protect human health.”''


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On a good day it can be blue sky...


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On a smoggy day it looks like this...
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Latest revision as of 18:49, 22 August 2024


Asthma and Air Pollution

Ground-level ozone is part of “smog” or haze. It is most common in cities where there are more cars and use of fossil fuels. It is also more common in the summer when there is more sunlight, heat, and low winds. Ground-level ozone is created by chemical reactions between emissions of burning fuel emissions and volatile organic compounds (VOC), heat, and sunlight. It is associated with worsening respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Ozone triggers asthma because it is very irritating to the lungs and airways.

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), Sulfur dioxide (SO2), Carbon monoxide (CO), Methane (CH4)

Other gases can also affect your health and environment.

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) comes from burning fuels. It also forms from emissions from cars, trucks, other vehicles, and power plants. It is part of smog (haze). Breathing in NO2 can cause someone to develop asthma. It can worsen lung disease, especially asthma.

Sulfur dioxide (SO2) comes from burning fossil fuels, transportation, volcanoes, and industrial processes. It can be found in smog or haze. SO2 can harm plants (including trees). It can harm your lungs and lead to health problems.

Carbon monoxide (CO) forms from incomplete combustion of fuels and wood. It has no smell. It can be very dangerous when it builds up inside buildings, homes, and cars.

Methane (CH4) is another gas that is part of air pollution. It mostly comes from animal agriculture and in subarctic regions where it is released from melting permafrost. Fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) and waste (food, landfills, wastewater) also add methane to the air. Methane is 30 times more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a major greenhouse gas that is worsening the climate crisis. Methane can turn into ground-level ozone, which is harmful to human health.


Cancer and Oil/Gas/Carbon Emissions

* https://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/09/care-about-your-heart-lungs-you-should-care-about-carbon-emissions-driving-costs-more-than-gas-prices-show/

* https://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/03/us-study-of-miners-links-heavy-exposure-to-diesel-exhaust-to-increased-risk-of-lung-cancer-death-res.html


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Shocking No One, LA Is Number 1 In Smog Pollution Yet Again

April 2022


American Lung Association / State of the Air Report


Pollution Report Paints Gloomy Picture of Smoggiest U.S. Cities

Los Angeles topped the dirty air list for the 14th time in 15 years

ABC News

April 2014

More than half of Americans breathe in unhealthy air, according to a new American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2014” report.

The Association found that air pollution throughout the nation has gotten a little worse since last year’s report. In particular, ozone levels rose in the three year period from 2010 to 2012, possibly because of climate change.

“We’re making progress but some of that could be reversed with rising ozone levels,” said Janice Nolen, the Lung Association’s vice president of national policy. “A changing climate is going to make it harder to protect human health.”


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On a good day it can be blue sky...

SMOG be gone.jpg


On a smoggy day it looks like this...

SMOG in the Los Angeles basin.png

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